IK Investment Partners (“IK”) is pleased to announce that the IK Small Cap I Fund has reached an agreement to acquire APOSAN Dr. Künzer GmbH (“APOSAN” or “the Company”), a leading pharmaceutical homecare company in Germany. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.

APOSAN was founded in 1991 by Dr. Clemens Künzer, with the purpose to service homecare patients through the compounding of individualised infusible and injectable medication. Since then, the company has evolved to an integrated full-range pharmaceutical homecare supplier with its own manufacturing capacities and a dedicated key account management and homecare nurses team to generate and support its growing nationwide patient base. The APOSAN group of companies is organised in three main business segments: pharmaceutical homecare, providing services to patients that require long-term infusion to diseases; classical homecare, providing standard enteral nutrition solutions as well as selected standard medical devices; and ophthalmic injectables. Founder Dr. Clemens Künzer will retain a substantial shareholding in the Company. The broad and experienced management team led going forward by Rainer Schmitz as CEO, Michael Schmitz as CSO and Claudia Vitiello as COO will also become shareholders and invest alongside Dr. Künzer and IK. APOSAN is headquartered in Cologne, Germany, and serves over 10,000 patients per year.

04-10-2016 07:30

Gimv acquires a c. 60% stake in Acceo next to founder/CEO Stéphane Doré and management. Acceo is an independent French provider of inspection and certification services for buildings, with a focus on areas requiring specialist expertise such as elevator inspections, regulated accessibility audits and energy efficiency audits. Over the coming years, Acceo will be focusing on further profitable growth in France, penetrating new geographical markets and expanding into new business lines.

Founded in 2003, Acceo (www.acceo.eu) is an independent player active in elevator inspection and monitoring services, regulated accessibility audits and energy efficiency audits. The group also has a center of excellence for vertical transportation providing advice for elevator design in new and existing buildings. Its clients are property owners in the commercial or administrative sector (e.g. Unibail Rodamco, BNP, Allianz, EDF, Casino), municipalities or regional authorities, schools and universities, hospitals, social sector organizations, as well as property managers (e.g. Foncia, Citya, Nexity, Square Habitat). Headquartered in Gémenos near Marseille, Acceo operates a commercial network of 17 independently-managed agencies in France, Belgium and Spain. Over the years, the company was able to grow its revenues to EUR 18.4 million in 2015, driven by increasing regulatory requirements for buildings in the areas of safety, accessibility and sustainability. The ambition is to double the company’s size over five years by (i) strengthening its position in France, (ii) further geographical expansion, initially in Belgium and Spain, and (iii) expanding into adjacent services.

Gimv takes a c. 60% stake in the company by acquiring shares previously owned by Ekkio Capital (40%) and by providing partial liquidity to the founder and management.

Thomas Dewever, Partner in Gimv’s Sustainable Cities platform: “Property owners and managers are increasingly confronted with complex technical and administrative requirements to comply with safety and sustainability regulations. Acceo offers independent advice and specialist expertise to deal with these obligations and shoulder the burden for the customers. The company’s professionalism and proximity to its customers has resulted in strong customer loyalty and impressive growth. We are very happy to partner with an ambitious and entrepreneurial management team to build on this track record and continue Acceo’s growth in France and adjacent markets.”

Stéphane Doré, CEO and Founder of Acceo: “We are very happy to have Gimv on board as a partner for this new phase in our development. We have ambitious plans to continue to grow our business in France and abroad. Gimv’s track record as a growth investor together with its European dimension will help us achieve these ambitions over the coming years.”

CapMan Nordic Real Estate fund has agreed to sell Bergshamra Bro in Solna, Northern Stockholm, to Solnaberg Property AB (publ), a company established by Catella. The price is SEK 858 million.

Bergshamra Bro is a 31,325 square-meter office building in a highly visible location spanning over and alongside the E18 road in Stockholm. The property consists of four interconnecting office buildings and its main tenant is ‘if’ P&C insurance.

“We are very happy to have reached our objective of introducing new long term tenants to the property alongside ‘if’ in order to create full occupancy and a more institutional product. In addition, we are retaining a large piece of land with surface parking on which we are currently working on changing the zoning plan to develop some building rights,” comments Ed Williams, Senior Partner at CapMan Real Estate.

“The strong demand from both private and institutional investors and attractive financing received by the buyer Solnaberg Property AB (publ) underlines CapMan’s very impressive development of the property into a more core product” says Martin Malhotra, the responsible Project Manager at Catella.

CapMan Nordic Real Estate fund invested in Bergshamra Bro in 2014 and this transaction is the fifth exit of the fund. The focus of the €273 million fund is to acquire mainly office, retail and residential properties located in established submarkets of major Nordic cities. The fund was established in 2013.

Milan, September 29 2016 – RGI a leading provider of software products and technology services to the insurance industry, and a portfolio company of Ardian, today announced the acquisition of a 100% stake in Kapia Solutions SAS, a French competitor which focuses specifically on life insurance.

Kapia Solutions is a leading technology vendor in France in the life insurance industry, as wel as in pension and wealth management, with offices in Paris, Lille and Luxemburg. Know for its unique agility and flexibility, Kapia Solution has built a strong reputation among French insurers. Its expertise has helped it establish succesful partnerships across the industry.

Founded in 1987, RGI specializes in software products for insurance compamies. It offers a range of services aimed at managing products, processes and insurance networks, as well as in activity customization, application maintenance and customer assistance. RGI has a leading position in EMEA region, working with some of the most prominent insurance companies, both in Italy and across Europe. Ardian having acquired a 72% stake in RGI in May 2014, will continue to support RGI’s global growth plans through it’s global network and dedicated team. In 2015 RGI registered more than 55 million euro’s revenues.